- Source: Alvania venusta
Alvania venusta is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.
Description
The length of the shell attains 3 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm.
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off Lyttelton and off Chatham Rise.
References
Powell, A. W. B. (1926). Mollusca from 100 fathoms off Lyttelton, with descriptions of four new species, and also a new Pliocene fossil. Scientific Results of the New Zealand Government Trawling Expedition, 1907. Records of the Canterbury Museum. 3: 43–50
Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland
Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.